filed rate doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 239 U.S. 446 - Dayton Coal Iron Company v. Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company · 1915Most cited · 45 citing opinions
It is essential to the maintenance of uniform rates and the avoidance of rebates and preferential treatment that the tariff rates filed with the Commission according to the interstate commerce act, while in force, shall be the only rates which the carrier may lawfully receive or the shipper properly pay.
How often courts cite the case defining “filed rate doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “filed rate doctrine” — 43 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.